by LenTesta » Wed Jul 24, 2002 8:54 pm
Dana,
I agree with Sensei on reading Suzette Elgin's book. Although she has no experience in martial arts, she gives very good basic and advanced levels of gentle communication.
When I first started moderating this forum, Kevin Mackie gave me a seminar by Fred Pryor, which is on cassette tape, "How to Manage Conflict, Anger and Emotion." Kevin if you are reading this and you want the seminar tapes back, just drop me an e-mail. This seminar has 6 casette tapes and a manual. A very good learning experience because anger and emotion plays a very important part in verbal self defense tactics.
If you want to read about or listen to verbal self-defense from a martial artists perspective, there are great articles from Darren Laur posted right here on the Uechi-ryu.com articles pages. Also Tony Blaur has a tape for sale which I have extensively reviewed called Cerebral Self-Defense. A very good tape on what you can expect from different kinds of encounters.
Search back in the old threads of the VSD forum and can find some good posts on these tapes and seminars.
Got to get ready to go to open up the BUKA.
Let me know if you can't find the old threads and I will post some of the links.
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Len